At 8:32 PM 4/4/96, Rich Graves wrote:

CDAmeisters as an "invasion," but I really don't buy this stuff about Cyberspace (a word only Barlow can say with a straight face) being a new

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"place." It's just a communications medium, no more and no less real than anything else. I think it would be better to stress that the online *is*

This is not true. I use the word "cyberspace" with a straight face. It has long seemed perfectly descriptive to me. This doesn't mean I buy Barlow's "let's just declare independence" schtick. --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."